Rain in a Jar Experiment - Fill a large glass jar with very hot water. Set a pie pan full of ice cubes on top of the mouth of the jar and observe what happens. Encourage students to draw observations.

Story Bracelet - Children will be able to retell the water cycle with this bead bracelet. Have them string on the following beads as they repeat the water cycle:

Evaporation - clear bead

Condensation - white bead

Precipitation - blue bead

Accumulation - red bead

Evaporation - clear beadApril Bulletin Board

Rain on the housetop,

rain on the trees.

Rain on the umbrella

but not on me!

This was always one of my favorite bulletin boards. You could make it a little more creative by letting children use wallpaper scraps for the umbrellas. They could also spatter paint or make collages on the umbrellas.